Can only ping hostname but not a domain

Ubuntu Gnome 13.10

What I can do:

ping hostnameX
- Response: PING hostnameX.domain.local (10.0.0.1)
nslookup hostnameX
- Response: Name: hostnameX.domain.local; Address: 10.0.0.1
- Response coming from: Server: 127.0.1.1; Address: 127.0.1.1
nslookup hostnameX.domain.local
- Response: Name: hostnameX.domain.local; Address: 10.0.0.1
- Response coming from: Server: 127.0.1.1; Address: 127.0.1.1

What I CANNOT do:

ping hostnameX.domain.local
- Response: ping: unknown host hostnameX.domain.local

This happens with all hostnames within the domain

This is my /etc/resolv.conf

# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.1.1
search domain.local

I already tried the same with dnsmasq disabled, without success...

UPDATE: I also tried some other distros (debian and opensuse), and they all have the same problem. So it looks to me as a general network problem, but what exactly...

Any clues?

intrixius

Posted 2014-01-16T12:08:10.050

Reputation: 113

so when your nslookups succeed, do they indicate your that the nameserver responding to the query is the one running on 127.0.1.1? – Frank Thomas – 2014-01-16T12:42:40.337

@FrankThomas I added this to my question – intrixius – 2014-01-16T13:01:44.140

What does your domain.local zone look like? – NickW – 2014-01-16T15:20:17.447

@NickW do you mean on the dns server? I don't have access to the server unfortunately – intrixius – 2014-01-16T17:47:11.773

If 127.0.0.1 is serving domain.local, you should have access to it? – NickW – 2014-01-16T17:51:19.937

@NickW no that IP is my localhost, which is serving dnsmasq... – intrixius – 2014-01-17T08:22:18.530

Can only ping hostname but not a domain

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